Vera Kozar

Vera Kozar was a US Air Force marksman who was believed to have killed the famed Taliban sniper, the "Ace of Clubs", during the Afghanistan War.

Biography
Vera Kozar was born in North Dakota, United States to a family of Russian descent. Her grandmother came from the Soviet Union and had fought in World War II as a sniper with 22 confirmed kills (she probably had more kills in the hectic Great Patriotic War). She attended the Close Precision Engagement Course at Fort Bliss near El Paso, Texas, the only marskman course open to females, and she was trained along with Jordan Abrams as a US Air Force sniper. During the Afghanistan War, Kozar and Abrams took turns as the sniper and spotter, and Kozar was allegedly the one to kill the famed Afghan sniper "the Ace of Clubs" according to her newspaper, although Abrams claimed that she had killed the sniper but not gloated about it.